Broken Vows (72 page)
- asks Cameron to give Gaddafi safe haven,
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- Kuwaiti government starts to finance,
1
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- some clients start to query his advice,
1
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- bid to become president of EU,
1
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- second appearance before Chilcot inquiry,
1
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- ever closer relationship with Murdoch,
1
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- advises Brooks on phone-hacking scandal,
1
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- possible affair with Deng,
1
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- Murdoch divorces Deng, partly on grounds of her relationship with TB,
1
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- waning influence internationally,
1
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- Quartet employment ends,
1
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- awards from Save the Children and
GQ
,
1
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- trustworthiness assessed,
1
- GENERAL:
attitude to the market,
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- attitude to rural affairs,
1
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- author’s meeting with,
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- belief in power of legislation,
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- books about,
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- British popular attitude,
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,
2
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- children’s education,
1
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- fascination with wealthy businessmen,
1
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- influences on,
1
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- as judge of character,
1
,
2
,
3
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- lack of historical knowledge,
1
,
2
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- lack of knowledge about Islam,
1
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- lack of understanding of political success,
1
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- leadership skills,
1
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- leisurewear,
1
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- love of trappings of office,
1
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- loyalty,
1
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- personal kindnesses,
1
,
2
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- relationship with CB,
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,
2
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- and religion,
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- Tory rather than Labour?,
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- trustworthiness,
1
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- unworldliness,
1
- Blears, Hazel,
1
- Blix, Hans,
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4
- Blunkett, David: and education policy,
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- and immigration policy,
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- on Roche,
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- replaces Straw at Home Office,
1
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- Woodhead on,
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- and Iraq war,
1
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- blames civil service for lack of improvement in NHS,
1
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- on Barber’s tests,
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- tackles TB over tenor of his leadership,
1
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- and
Sunday Times
exposé,
1
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- on TB’s struggle to survive,
1
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- resigns over nanny’s visa,
1
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- support for TB in run-up to 2005 election,
1
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- second resignation,
1
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- on Reid,
1
- BMA
see
British Medical Association
- Boateng, Paul,
1
- Boer, Wiebe,
1
- Boko Haram,
1
- Booth, Cherie
see
Blair, Cherie
- Booth, Tony,
1
- Bosnia,
1
,
2
- Bowen, Desmond,
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2
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3
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4
- Bower, Cynthia,
1
- Boyce, Admiral Mike: takes over as chief of defence staff,
1
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- attitude to Hoon and Tebbit,
1
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- tries to get more money for MoD,
1
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- warns about dangers of ‘war on terror’,
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- TB keeps Iraq discussions secret from,
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- and Iraq war,
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- tries to get more military funding,
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- continued negativity about Iraq war,
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- and first JIC dossier,
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- Hoon and TB try to sack,
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- addresses Cabinet re. extent of UK involvement in Iraq invasion,
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- protests again about lack of military funding,
1
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- pressurises TB to authorise proper war preparations,
1
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- briefs TB and presses him for decisiveness,
1
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- warns about lack of post-war planning,
1
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2
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- demands assurance war would be legal,
1
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- and war briefings,
1
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2
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- announces war officially over,
1
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- on Short and aid work in Iraq,
1
- Boys-Smith, Stephen: Straw urges to do better with asylum-seekers,
1
,
2
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- meets with TB to discuss asylum-seekers,
1
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- works with Roche,
1
,
2
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- on Straw,
1
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- welcomes tolerant immigration policy,
1
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- grants Somalians exceptional leave to remain,
1
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- on New Labour immigration policy,
1
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- improves decision-making process,
1
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- relationship with Blunkett,
1
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- on benefit voucher system,
1
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- replaced by Jeffrey,
1
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- on second Iraq dossier,
1
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- work in Northern Ireland,
1
- BP,
1
,
2
- Bradford Royal Infirmary,
1
- Branson, Richard,
1
,
2
,
3
- Brazil,
1
- Bremer, Paul,
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3
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4
- Bremner, Rory,
1
- Bright, Martin,
1
- Brin, Sergey,
1
- Bristol Royal Infirmary,
1
- British Aerospace,
1
- British army: in Kosovo,
1
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2
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- in Sierra Leone and East Timor,
1
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- lack of proper funding for Iraq war,
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2
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- lack of experience for Iraq war,
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- pushes for full involvement,
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- invasion performance,
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- plight in Iraq in aftermath of war,
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- more funding reluctantly released by Brown,
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- military police murdered,
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- administrative muddle in British chain of command,
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- calibre of officers in Iraq,
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- TB pledges to send more troops to Afghanistan,
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- Allied Rapid Reaction Corps,
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- growing chaos round Basra,
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- withdrawal from Iraq starts to be considered,
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- Afghanistan deployment goes ahead,
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- desires to leave Iraq,
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- helicopter shot down in Basra,
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- extension of Afghanistan mission to Sangin proves disastrous,
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- escalation and mission creep in Afghanistan and Iraq,
1
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2
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- and NHS medical treatment,
1
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- lack of proper funding and equipment,
1
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- see also
SAS
- British Energy,
1
- British Gas,
1
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2
- British Medical Association (BMA): TB under fire from,
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- obstruction to change,
1
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- and NHS Plan 2000,
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- negotiations over consultant pay and conditions,
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2
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- GP pay and conditions,
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- negotiates yet better pay,
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- hatred of the market,
1
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- new system for assigning junior doctors to consultants,
1
- Bromley, Princess Royal University Hospital,
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2
- Brooks, Rebekah,
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- Brown, Gordon: character,
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- books about,
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- attitude to Smith,
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- appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer,
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- TB’s role in economic affairs,
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- attitude to health expenditure,
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- relationship with TB,
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- and Robinson,
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- flat swap with Blairs,
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- and Ecclestone scandal,
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- worsening relations with Mandelson,
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- and Robinson scandal,
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- Routledge’s biography appears,
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- conviction should have been PM,
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- and defence policy,
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- and energy policy,
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- desire for revenge on Mandelson,
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- and immigration policy,
1
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- attitude to prison policy,
1
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- introduces tax credits,
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- appears to inject yet more cash into NHS,
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- pushes PFI deals for hospitals,
1
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- protects Robinson,
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- continuing belief in NHS monopoly,
1
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- his goals for the government,
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- role in Mandelson’s resignation irreparably damages relationship with TB,
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- gets involved in education policy,
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- personal agenda of redistribution,
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- and Kosovo intervention,
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- refuses to discuss Budget,
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- and forces of conservatism speech,
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- advice to Milburn about health policy,
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- refuses more money for NHS,
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- cancels Third World debt,
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- popularity,
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- TB tries to force to hand over NHS money,
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- Bremner’s portrayal,
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- divisiveness of his policy preferences,
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- and climate change,
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- considers Post Office privatisation,
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- reluctantly agrees to abandon petrol tax increase,
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- attitude to immigration,
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- underfunding of MoD,
1
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- Robinson praises,
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- more arguments with TB,
1
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- TB’s need for,
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- refuses to allocate money for foot-and-mouth epidemic,
1
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- another row with TB,
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- TB retreats from sending to Foreign Office,
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- still refusing more NHS money,
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- TB decides to stand firm against his demand for TB’s resignation,
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- commitment to tax credits,
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- backstabbing,
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- involvement in education programmes,
1
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- TB attempts to discuss 9/11 with,
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- and Iraq war,
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2
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- grudgingly funds immigrant detention centres,
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- more fights with TB, over NHS and succession in particular,
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- relationship with Milburn,
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2
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- marriage, and death of newborn daughter,
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- finally agrees to extra NHS cash,
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2
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- 2002 Budget breaks own golden rules,
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- opposes Milburn’s NHS reorganisation,
1
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- economic forecasts proved wrong,
1
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- Iraq war as means for TB to win out over,
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- refuses more money for the military in run-up to Iraq war,
1
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- attacks TB at 2002 party conference,
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- obstructs TB’s nuclear power plans,
1
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- poor value of redistributive efforts
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- supports part privatisation of London Underground,
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- Blunkett and Milburn try to persuade TB to sack,
1
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- relationship with CB,
1
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- TB again retreats from sacking,
1
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- allocates funds for Iraq invasion,
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- to be excluded from war plans,
1
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- Cabinet attitude to,
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- support for Iraq war,
1
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- goes on attack again against TB,
1
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2
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- 2003 Budget breaks golden rules again,
1
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- another NHS row,
1
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- as protector of NHS spending,
1
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- opposes introducing the market into NHS,
1
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- Milburn sacrificed to TB’s need for,
1
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- Reid’s attitude to,
1
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2
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- TB’s fear of continues to affect health policy,
1
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- TB quashes his querying of education expenditure,
1
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2
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- Powell on his ambition to be PM,
1
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- blocks funds for army in Iraq,
1
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- argues with TB over British membership of euro,
1
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- tentative handover deal done with TB,
1
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- TB reneges on deal,
1
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- reluctantly releases more military funding,
1
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- triumphant 2004 Budget,
1
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- again presses TB to resign,
1
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2
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- row over energy policy,
1
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2
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- TB announces will serve full third term,
1
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- constant self-promotion,
1
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- TB moves against, with predictable results,
1
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- Peston’s supportive book,
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- made election supremo,
1
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- his effect on the economy and industry,
1
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- and Rover,
1
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- TB again toys with idea of sacking,
1
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- opposes TB’s proposed health changes,
1
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- worsening public finances,
1
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- more involvement in health policy,
1
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- more arguments over TB’s length of tenure and succession,
1
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- row with TB over economy and pensions,
1
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- agrees to fund Afghanistan mission,
1
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- snap pledge to increase funding for state schools,
1
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- again attacking TB,
1
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- TB attempts to make him more New Labour,
1
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2
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- encourages BNF’s sale of stake in Westinghouse Electric Company,
1
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- TB wants to win over to nuclear power,
1
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- again refuses additional military funding,
1
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2
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- finally gets departure date from TB,
1
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- popular lack of support,
1
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- at 2006 party conference,
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- TB’s attitude to him as successor,
1
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- rejects New Labour brand,
1
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- helps TB exit gracefully,
1
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- still opposes TB’s education policies,
1
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- 2007 Budget,
1
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- performance as Chancellor assessed,
1
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- assures self of succession,
1
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- congratulates TB at his last Cabinet meeting,
1
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- as PM,
1
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2
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3
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- TB writes about in memoirs,
1
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- and Chilcot inquiry,
1